unit 4 study tool

Question 1

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Answer 1

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948, is a milestone document that proclaims the inalienable rights which everyone is entitled to as a human being.

Question 2

United Nations

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international organization founded in 1945 after World War II by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations, promoting social progress, better living standards, and human rights.

Question 3

pyramid of hate

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biased behaviors, growing in complexity from the bottom to the top

Question 4

Indian removal act

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authorizing the president to grant lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian lands within existing state borders.

Question 5

Andrew jackson

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he approved the Indian removal act

Question 6

trail of tears

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the trail the Indians had to walk when they got removed from the country

Question 7

discrimination

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the process of making unfair or prejudicial distinctions between people based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong or are perceived to belong

Question 8

prejudice

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a favoring or dislike of something without good reason

Question 9

bias

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prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair.

Question 10

stereotypes

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a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.

Question 11

aparthied

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racial segregation under the all-white government of South Africa

Question 12

segregation

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the action or state of setting someone or something apart from others.

Question 13

nelson mandela

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anti apartheid activist first black president stopped the apartheid

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f w de klerk

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president of South Africa during the south African apartheid

Question 15

African national congress

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gives black people rights to vote

Question 16

robben island

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Island in South Africa
where nelson mandela was incarcerated

Question 17

political cartoons

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a cartoon graphic with caricatures of public figures, expressing the artist’s opinion.

Question 18

patriotism

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the quality of being patriotic; devotion to and vigorous support for one’s country.

Question 19

nationalism

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identification with one’s own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.

Question 20

treaty of versallies

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The Treaty of Versailles was signed by Germany and the Allied Nations on June 28, 1919, formally ending World War One.

Question 21

WW1

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The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914 set off a chain of events that led to war in early August 1914

Question 22

WW2

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Adolf Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany

Question 23

The National Socialist German Workers Party

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a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported the ideology of Nazism.

Question 24

Adolf Hitler

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an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933-1945

Question 25

Mein Kamfp

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Mein Kampf (German: [maɪn ˈkampf];'My Struggle') is a 1925 autobiographical Hitler began Mein Kampf while imprisoned following his failed coup in Munich

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platform

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A political party platform party program, or party manifesto is a formal set of principal goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate,

Question 27

holocaust

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the systematic state-sponsored killing of six million Jewish men, women, and children and millions of others by Nazi Germany

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genocide

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the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group with the ok of the government

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concentration camp

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a place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution.

Question 30

hate crime

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a criminal offense committed against a person, property, or society that is motivated, in whole, or in part, by the offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or ethnicity.

Question 31

antisemitism

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a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews.

Question 32

Milgram Experiment

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tested how far people would go to obey authority, even when it meant hurting others.

Question 33

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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His initial two terms were centered on combating the Great Depression, while his third and fourth saw him shift his focus to America's involvement in World War II. Hyde Park, New York, U.S.

Question 34

attack on Pearl Harbor

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surprise aerial attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island, Hawaii, by the Japanese that precipitated the entry of the United States into World War II.

Question 35

Japanese Internment Camp

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the policy of the U.S. government that people of Japanese descent, including U.S. citizens, would be incarcerated in isolated camps.

Question 36

Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings

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Weapon whose great explosive power results from the sudden release of energy upon the splitting, or fission, of the nuclei of heavy elements such as plutonium or uranium

Question 37

Instrument of Surrender

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a surrendering document of a military conflict